Jentin Racing Team rider Simon Andrews bounced back from a disappointing retirement in the opening Bennetts British Superbike Championship race at
Oulton Park to secure a fine top ten finish in the second race of the weekend.
Andrews had qualified in tenth place on the grid but the team was then left with a challenge ahead of race one when the race was red-flagged after an accident and the restart declared wet as rain started to fall.
With the team working to change to wet tyres and settings, Andrews took his place on the grid but it was to be a short-lived outing when he went down at Shell Oils on the opening lap and was forced to retire.
However, he made a steady start in the second race and was locked in a battle with Scott Smart on the Kawasaki for a number of laps. Making a tidy pass on Karl Harris moved Andrews through to tenth place. Crutchlow and Sykes crashed out of the race and Leon Haslam was later excluded from the results after the incident between himself and Sykes, promoting the Jentin rider to seventh place.
"I'm gutted to have crashed in the first race but I'd struggled in the wet all weekend as we couldn't find a set-up that we were really happy with," he said. "I still had a few mechanical problems in the second race but knew I had to get the points and I rode a safe race to ensure I finished and got in the points. Hopefully
Brands Hatch will run a bit more smoothly for us next weekend."
Team manager Bernie Toleman admitted he was disappointed with the race one retirement but said he was pleased with the way in which Andrews had bounced back to secure points in race two.
"The whole team have, as usual, worked incredibly hard all weekend and of course we were really disappointed after the race one DNF," he said. "However Simon really delivered for us in race two, where despite some mechanical issues we ended up seventh.
"We start from row two at Brands Hatch this coming weekend and lets all hope for better weather."
